Rays prospect delivers slowest dwelling run trot and highest bat flip potential in Dominican League

We have talked about celebrations within the Dominican Skilled Baseball League (LIDOM) earlier than.

However nothing could high what we noticed in Sport 7 of the championship between Leones del Escogido and Tigres del Licey this week.

The decisive sport was tied at 5-5 within the high of the ninth inning — it is a essential level that you have to keep in mind — when Tampa Bay Rays prospect Junior Caminero got here to the plate with one out. With the depend 1-0 in his favor, Caminero turned on a 104-mph fastball left over the plate and belted it 454 toes to middle area for the go-ahead dwelling run.

That touched off an epic dwelling run trot that lasted a minute:

There are some things of notice concerning this dwelling run, and the celebration that adopted. The primary element concerned simply how a lot Caminero crushed this pitch, which you’ll be able to glean from what it does to the scoreboard. Right here is a picture of the scoreboard in middle area whereas the house run continues to be in flight:

Then the aftermath, because it turns into obvious that Caminero’s blast broke mentioned scoreboard:

Then there’s the prolonged celebration earlier than Caminero even reaches first base, punctuated by a prolonged cease on the first-base bag:

Caminero really will get round second bag somewhat shortly, however there’s once more an prolonged cease at third, as he celebrates with the third-base coach:

Lastly, he rounds third and heads dwelling, the place he’s met by a crowd of individuals that features not simply his teammates, but additionally his mascot:

Astute observers, such because the good minds at Reddit, famous that this was all touched off with a bat flip for the ages. That’s illustrated with this photograph after Caminero despatched his lumber to the shadow realm:

Some House-X check rockets didn’t final as lengthy in flight.

Once more, this all occurred within the TOP OF THE NINTH INNING. Licey really put the tying run on third and the profitable run on second, however this diving catch in proper area ended the menace, crowning Escogido champions:

That catch additionally permits us to savor this epic celebration somewhat bit extra.

As for Caminero, he appeared in 43 video games for the Rays this previous season, slashing .249/.299/.424.

However in ten video games in LIDOM this winter he put up a slash line of .424/.457/.546, together with a house run trot for the ages.